OVERVIEW July 2017 White sweet clover Melilotus albus

OVERVIEW July 2017 White sweet clover (Melilotus albus), observed in Wannsee, Berlin, 18 June 2017. Photo CC BY-SA W. -H. Kusber. From Bo. BO - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Observations https: //demo. gbif. org/occurrence/1571031873.

BY THE NUMBERS 1 July 2017 Species occurrence records Datasets 783, 186, 133 35, 238 Country Participants Publishers 54 Organizational Participants 40 895 Records downloaded per month (avg 2017) Unique users per month (May. June avg) 35. 2 billion 102, 372 | 2

participatio Current network https: //demo. gbif. org/the-gbif-network | 3

data access and us Web traffic to GBIF. org, 2017 Ran k Country/Te Sessions rritory % Total Session s 2016 rank Pages / Sessio n 1 United States 117, 78 9 13. 37 % 1 4. 52 2 India 68, 714 7. 80% 2 1. 99 3 Mexico 36, 338 4. 12% 7 8. 40 4 United Kingdo m 34, 848 3. 95% 5 6. 67 5 Spain 34, 552 3. 92% 6 5. 68 6 Brazil 33, 898 3. 85% 8 5. 33 7 German y 33, 191 3. 77% 3 5. 35 8 France 28, 224 3. 20% 4 3. 77 9 Colombi 24, 712 2. 80% 13 | 6. 36 5

data availabilit Data published through GBIF. org www. gbif. org/analytics/global | 6

data access and us Peer-reviewed publications using GBIF-mediated data | 10

data access and us Peer-reviewed uses, by country and region, 2017 Total # of peer-reviewed papers by country 1 United States 102 2 Brazil 40 3 United Kingdom 39 4 Germany 32 1 Europe 266 5 Australia 31 2 Latin America 129 6 Mexico 30 3 North America 120 7 Spain 28 4 Asia 72 8 China 24 5 Oceania 37 9 Switzerland 21 6 Africa 25 10 France 20 Total # of papers by region | 11

data access and us Featured research May 2017 1/3 Amaral AG, Munhoz CBR, Walter BMT, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J & Raes N (2017) Richness pattern and phytogeography of the Cerrado's herb-shrub flora and implications for conservation. Journal of Vegetation Science doi: 10. 1111/jvs. 12541 Author countries: Brazil, Netherlands Conservation Ashraf U, Peterson AT, Chaudhry MN et al. (2017) Ecological niche model comparison under different climate scenarios: a case study of Olea spp. in Asia. Ecosphere 8(5): e 18025: doi: 10. 1002/ecs 2. 1825 Author countries: United States, Pakistan Species distribution Cross T, Finn JT & Bradley BA (2017) Frequency of invasive plant occurrence is not a suitable proxy for abundance in the Northeast United States. Ecosphere 8(5): e 01800. doi: 10. 1002/ecs 2. 1800 Author country: United States Invasive alien species Impact of climate change Species conservation and protected areas Biodiversity and human health Food, farming and biofuels Ecosystem services Advancing biodiversity science Data management Data papers https: //demo. gbif. org/cms/search? type=data_use Maestri R, Shenbrot GI & Krasnov BR (2017) Parasite beta diversity, host beta diversity and environment: application of two approaches to reveal patterns of flea species turnover in Mongolia. Journal of Biogeography. doi: 10. 1111/jbi. 13025 Author countries: Brazil, Israel Biogeography Males J & Griffiths H (2017) Functional types in the Bromeliaceae: relationships with drought resistance traits and bioclimatic distributions. Functional Ecology. doi: 10. 1111/1365 -2435. 12900 Author country: United Kingdom Ecology O'Hara CC, Afflerbach JC, Scarborough C, Kaschner K & Halpern BS (2017) Aligning marine species range data to better serve science and conservation. PLo. S ONE 12(5): e 0175739. doi: 10. 1371/journal. pone. 0175739 Author countries: United States, Germany, United Kingdom Conservation | 13

data access and us Featured research May 2017 2/2 Phillips HRP, Newbold T & Purvis A (2017) Land-use effects on local biodiversity in tropical forests vary between continents. Biodiversity and Conservation 26(9): 2251 -2270. doi: 10. 1007/s 10531 -017 -1356 -2 Author countries: Germany, United Kingdom Conservation Sapes G, Serra-Diaz JM, Lloret F (2017) Species climatic niche explains drought-induced die-off in a Mediterranean woody community. Ecosphere 8(5): e 01833 doi: 10. 1002/ecs 2. 1833 Author countries: United States, Spain Conservation Sokolow SH, Jones IJ, Jocque M et al. (2017) Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372(1722): 20160127. doi: 10. 1098/rstb. 2016. 0127 Author country: United States Invasive alien species Impact of climate change Species conservation and protected areas Biodiversity and human health Food, farming and biofuels Ecosystem services Advancing biodiversity science Stojanović DV, Vajgand D, Radović D, Ćurĉić N & Ćurĉić S (2017) Expansion of the range of the introduced moth Acontia candefacta in southeastern Europe. Bulletin of Insectology. http: //bit. ly/2 sm. Qji 3 Author country: Serbia Truong TTA, Hardy GESJ & Andrew ME (2017) Contemporary Remotely Sensed Data Products Refine Invasive Plants Risk Mapping in Data Poor Regions. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 770 doi: 10. 3389/fpls. 2017. 00770 Author countries: Australia, Viet Nam Data management Data papers https: //demo. gbif. org/cms/search? type=data_use | 14

data access and us Featured research June 2017 1/2 Barratt CD, Bwong BA, Onstein RE et al. (2017) Environmental correlates of phylogenetic endemism in amphibians and the conservation of refugia in the Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10. 1111/ddi. 12582 Author countries: Switzerland, Netherlands, Kenya, Australia, Italy, United Kingdom Conservation Chapman D, Purse BV, Roy HE & Bullock JM (2017) Global trade networks determine the distribution of invasive non-native species, Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi: 10. 1111/geb. 12599 Author country: United Kingdom Chefaoui RM & Serrão EA (2017) Accounting for uncertainty in predictions of a marine species: Integrating population genetics to verify past distributions. Ecological Modelling 359: 229 -239. doi: 10. 1016/j. ecolmodel. 2017. 06. 006 Author countries: Portugal Marine Invasive alien species Impact of climate change Species conservation and protected areas Biodiversity and human health Food, farming and biofuels Ecosystem services Advancing biodiversity science Data management Data papers https: //demo. gbif. org/cms/search? type=data_use Klonner G, Dullinger I, Wessely J et al. (2017) Will climate change increase hybridization risk between potential plant invaders and their congeners in Europe? Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10. 1111/ddi. 12578 Author countries: Austria, Denmark, France, United Kingdom, China, Czech Republic Ludt WB, Morgan L, Bishop J & Chakrabarty P (2017) A quantitative and statistical biological comparison of three semienclosed seas: the Red Sea, the Persian (Arabian) Gulf, and the Gulf of California. Marine Biodiversity. doi: 10. 1007/s 12526017 -0740 -1 Author countries: United States, Kuwait Biogeography Oliveira U, Vasconcelos MF & Santos AJ (2017) Biogeography of Amazon birds: rivers limit species composition, but not areas of | 15 endemism. Scientific Reports 7: 2992. doi: 10. 1038/s 41598 -01703098 -w Author country: Brazil Biogeography

data access and us Featured research June 2017 2/2 Pérez-Escobar OA, Chomicki G, Condamine FL et al. (2017) Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot. New Phytologist 215(2): 891 -905. doi: 10. 1111/nph. 14629 Author countries: United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Costa Rica, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland Biogeography Ramirez-Cabral NYZ, Kumar L & Shabani F (2017) Global risk levels for corn rusts (Puccinia sorghi and Puccinia polysora) under climate change projections. Journal of Phytopathology. doi: 10. 1111/jph. 12593 Author countries: Australia, Mexico Invasive alien species Impact of climate change Species conservation and protected areas Biodiversity and human health Food, farming and biofuels Ecosystem services Advancing biodiversity science Data management Data papers https: //demo. gbif. org/cms/search? type=data_use Ramírez-Toro W, Torres-Miranda A, González-Rodríguez A, Ruiz. Sanchez E, Luna-Vega I & Oyama K (2017) A Multicriteria Analysis for Prioritizing Areas for Conservation of Oaks (Fagaceae: Quercus) in Oaxaca, Southern Mexico. Tropical Conservation Science. doi: 10. 1177/1940082917714227 Author country: Mexico Conservation Soudzilovskaia NA, Vaessen S, van’t Zelfde M & Raes N (2017) Global Patterns of Mycorrhizal Distribution and Their Environmental Drivers, in Biogeography of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis, ed. Tedersoo L. doi: 10. 1007/978 -3 -319 -56363 -3_11 Author country: Netherlands Species distribution Talaga S, Leroy C, Guidez A et al. (2017) DNA reference libraries of French Guianese mosquitoes for barcoding and metabarcoding. PLo. S ONE 12(6): e 0176993. doi: 10. 1371/journal. pone. 0176993 Author country: France Taxonomy Tanner R, Branquart E, Brundu G et al. (2017) The prioritisation of a short list of alien plants for risk analysis within the framework | 16 of the Regulation (EU) No. 1143/2014. Neo. Biota. doi: 10. 3897/neobiota. 35. 12366 Author countries: France,